HUM 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arabian Peninsula, Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Sulfur
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Words, phrases, and ideas commonly used in humanities. Civilization: a state of human existence in which people live together for mutual benefit. A group of people are primitive when they live off the land (foraging, hunting, finding foods naturally) and civilized when they live in the city. A civilization is defined by the cities people build, and how they live together in them. City: a common area used for trade, worship, and defense. Center of civilization because food and people were kept there. Began in ancient greece, was copied and improved by ancient rome, and carried westward across the planet. North america mostly settled by england and france. The greek, roman, norse civilizations = polytheistic (worshipping many gods) From the arabian peninsula to the caucasus mountains. Also gave rise to monotheism: belief in a single god. Abrahamic faiths were monotheistic - they included judaisim, Different to western civilization due to children being subservient, respecting elders, taking care of parents, etc.
